Abstract
The three Egyptian textual sources for the battle of Kadesh, the Poem, the Bulletin, and the Captions, have often been the subject of scholarly investigations.1 Both the Poem and the Bulletin have a form similar to that of the Egyptian Konigsnovelle: the incidents leading up to the battle all serve as a counterfoil to the appearance of the king,2 and, in fact, the main emphasis of the two sources centers on the heroism of Ramesses in contrast to the cowardice of his soldiers.
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